German identity cards issued since 2010 come ... registration and use "pseudonyms" instead of the real name of the ID card holder. Pseudonyms are random strings of characters acting as a unique ...

Very soon, digital fingerprinting will be mandatory in German ID cards. The question is ... can be used to establish whether the rightful holder is in possession of the document.

An end-of-the-decade programming glitch is causing problems for holders of millions of German credit and ATM cards. Some 20 million ATM cards, known as Girocards or EC cards in Germany ...